Atitudes para ingestão de água: um estudo com alunos do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública de Manaus

Abstract

This work was developed in a public school elementary in Manaus with 40 students in a class of sixth year, morning shift. The main objective was to develop the students of these class modes of care for water intake at their school through a didactic sequence. There were few outbreaks of diarrhea in high school and commented a lot of unhygienic way of some students to drink water, so the interest came on the possible cause and the relationship between this school and the students. They collected data to see if the water would was responsible for the outbreak of the health problems mentioned or neglect of students. For this, it observed the behavior of the students the ways to ingest water in schoolyards through unsystematic analysis. We carried out a microbiological analysis of three school aquifer samples and a simple questionnaire to ascertain the students prior knowledge. As an intervention to the problem through education, classes were based on one of the didactic sequences proposed by Zabala (1998), specifically, three number sequences, and finally an evaluative activity in which was made the development portfolio. The systematic observation pointed out that many students drank water incorrectly, because most, shared personal items and approach lips in water fountain taps. Microbiological analysis confirmed that the school water for consumption had no pathogenic microorganisms such as coliform bacteria, is there was no contamination of this type. Until then, the results showed the water are not responsible for pathological cases among students. The questionnaire showed that students had little knowledge of the correct and incorrect way as the water intake at school, making it possible to reflect on the water issue. The developed didactic sequence enabled the interaction of prior knowledge and the inclusion of new knowledge to enable new student learning about the topic. It was noticed in the portfolio activities no impairment of students to study the topic or research regarding any content worked in room. A positive point in the correction of portfolios was the opinion of the students claim that touching lips on tap for drinking fountains, share personal use cups or bottles or take trimming water with hands were incorrect attitudes. The results show that the work led students realize that drinking water requires hygiene, it is necessary to seek to apply over the correct forms intake to not endanger the health.